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Quotes About Operator

A great idea can't succeed without a great operator. But rarely can a great operator squeak by with a bad idea. So, as pithy as it sounds to say 'It's all about the people,' I only invest when I think I have found the right team for the right business.
~ Chris Sacca
Time plays tricks between here and home, said Mogget sepulchrally, frightening the life out of the telephone operator.
~ Garth Nix
Walpole has no intellect. A mere surgeon. A wonderful operator but, after all, what is operating? . . . . Manual labour.
~ George Bernard Shaw
French listening posts learned to recognize a radio operator's fist. Once encrypted, a message is sent in Morse code, as a series of dots and dashes, and each operator can be identified by his pauses, the speed of transmission, and the relative lengths of dots and dashes. A fist is the equivalent of a recognizable style of handwriting.
~ Simon Singh
A string is always a primitive unless you create it in a special way using an object constructor. We'll talk about object constructors later. And you can always use the typeof operator on your variable to see if it is of type string or object.
~ Eric Freeman
As it turns out, one of the things the new operator does behind the scenes when the object is created is to store information that allows it to determine, at any time, the constructor that created the object. And
~ Eric Freeman
You'll also hear developers refer to === (strict equality) as the "identity" operator.
~ Eric Freeman
Time plays tricks between here and home, " said Mogget sepulchrally, frightening the life out of the telephone operator.
~ Garth Nix, Abhorsen
Here and there a man respected the operator. Instinctively the man felt in him a glowing resentment of something he had not the courage to resent.
~ Sherwood Anderson
Love doesn't drop on you unexpectedly; you have to give off signals, sort of like an amateur radio operator.
~ Helen Gurley Brown
I love Ableton's vocoder and Operator for basic side subs and general low-end.
~ Oneohtrix Point Never
The operator whispered something in the man's ear.
~ Harlan Coben
Before any of the calls could be made, however, the president of Egypt called in to the switchboard at Trump Tower and somehow got the operator to put him straight through to Trump. "Trump was like . . . I love the Bangles! You know that song 'Walk Like an Egyptian'?" recalled one of his advisers on the scene.
~ Michael Lewis
To be one of the world's top space robotic arm operators is a necessary skill for an astronaut, but it doesn't have much carry-over.
~ Chris Hadfield
Being a 911 operator means balancing seemingly contradictory skills. On one hand, operators have to be fanatically precise and well-organized. On the other, they must be able to establish rapport with panicky callers.
~ Gary Wolf
But it would still be his own personal fear which would force him to stay aboard with the trapped Operator Stronach, not his bravery. Because Captain John Herschell's private nightmare was that of being seen to fail in his responsibility to those under his command. The prospect of being drowned or blown to bloodied lumps was secondary to a terrible wound like that.
~ Brian Callison
We might get our country back," said the construction man, stirred. "I feel like I lost it. I feel like I been lost in it all this time." "I've been lost too," said the gas-station operator. "I've been trying to find somebody I can understand to vote for.
~ Hunter S. Thompson
YouTube's traffic continues to grow very quickly. Video is something that we think is going to be embedded everywhere. And it makes sense, from Google's perspective, to be the operator of the largest site that contains all that video.
~ Eric Schmidt
Everyone knows who I am; everyone respects me as a shooter, as an operator, as a soldier... I'm always truthful, I'm always honest, and I'm always trying to do the right thing.
~ Tim Kennedy
The elevator was of the new sort that ran by gravitic repulsion. Gaal entered and others flowed in behind him. The operator closed a contact. For a moment, Gaal felt suspended in space as gravity switched to zero, and then he had weight again in small measure as the elevator accelerated upward. Deceleration followed and his feet left the floor. He squawked against his will. The operator called out, Tuck your feet under the railing. Can't you read the sign?
~ Isaac Asimov
There should be a phone service that turns off your phone between midnight and six A.M. every night. And if you want to make a call, you have to pick up the phone and talk to an operator: Put me through to AAA. My car battery's dead. Yes, ma'am. Put me through to Pink Dot. I need vanilla Häagen-Dazs toute de suite! Yes, ma'am. Put me through to my ex-boyfriend... I'm sorry, ma'am, the operator would say. That would be a bad idea. Now you go to bed before you do anything stupid.
~ Kim Gruenenfelder
if Jesus had stooped to play politics he might have become a key man in Roman Judea, a big operator. It was because he was indifferent to politics, and made his indifference clear, that he was liquidated. How to live one's life outside politics, and one's death too: that was the example he set for his followers.
~ J.M. Coetzee
Clarke remembered having his first experience with global communication when he worked at the Bishops Lydeard Post Office in his teens. "I was night operator for quite a long time at Bishops Lydeard, and one night there was a call from New York—very rare in those days. The call came by radio, of course; it was long before there was any telephonic cable. The operator in Taunton must have detected me listening in, and told me to unplug. I was probably weakening the signal.
~ Neil McAleer
The Radiomarine Corporation's relationship with shipping lines was impersonal: it was essentially a powerful employment agency supplying specialist staff. A ship was forced to accept a radio operator assigned by the corporation. The corporation was responsible for checking a radioman's qualifications, but no check was ever made into a man's background.
~ Gordon Thomas